MPD investigates Pizza Hut armed robbery

2:06 PM,
Oct. 6, 2012

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MANSFIELD - Mansfield police are investigating the second armed robbery in a week at a local business.

Friday night around 10:40 p.m., a masked man entered the Pizza Hut restaurant on McEnery Street and robbed the employees at gunpoint. The robber knocked one employee to the floor and pulled her by her hair while hollering for the manager, Assistant Police Chief Gary Hobbs said.

He grabbed a small amount of cash from the register and ran to a vehicle that was parked in the parking lot of the adjacent convenience store, Hobbs said. ...